Name
Walter James Bundell
Conflict
First World War
Date of Death / Age
20/09/1917
38
Rank, Service Number & Service Details
Private
204358
East Surrey Regiment
12th Bn.
Awards: Service Medals/Honour Awards
British War and Victory medals
Cemetery/Memorial: Name/Reference/Country
TYNE COT MEMORIAL
Panel 79 to 80 and 163
Belgium
UK & Other Memorials
Rickmansworth Urban District Memorial
St. Mary’s Church Memorial, Rickmansworth
Oddfellows Memorial, Rickmansworth
Pre War
Born in 1891 in Rickmansworth Walter was the son of William and Annie (nee Davey)Bundell. William was a Gardener and they lived in Rickmansworth High Street. William died in 1903.
The 1911 census has Walter age 31, a Dairyman’s Assistant, with his mother, still in the High Street, and two siblings, Ellen age 24, and Frederick age 20, a Coal Merchant’s Clerk, who died in hospital on the 7th of November 1918 while a prisoner of war in Poland. In 1917 Annie was living at 72 Talbot Road.
He is recorded as enlisting in Bedford.
Wartime Service
Walter was killed in action at the Battle of the Menin Road on the 20th of September 1917. Late in the day the Battalion’s right flank was exposed to machine gun and sniper fire due to the adjoining unit not having achieved its objectives.
Battalion casualties(killed and wounded) during the action were approximately 13 officers and 100 other ranks.
Additional Information
Brother of Lance Corporal Frederick Luke Bundell who died as a prisoner of war in Poland on 7 Nov 1918. Listed in CWGC and SDITGW as Bundle.
Acknowledgments
Malcolm Lennox, Tanya Britton, Mike Collins
